Between the Covers

Softcover. First edition. Sheet music (issued as plate number "N.Y. 2093-7"). Poem by W. H. Auden. Music by Marvin David Levy. Small quarto. 8pp. White printed wrappers. Slight bump at crown of the thin spine, else a fine copy. A scarce publication. Unrecorded by *OCLC* (which does locate three holdings of the 1963 English edition published by Boosey & Hawkes). Not recorded by *Bloomfield* (see *Bloomfield* S24, listing a different edition under the title "For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio". London: G. Ricordi, 1959, noting "Set in 1959 and first performed in New York, at Carnegie Hall on 7 December 1959 by the Collegiate Chorale").

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